Episode 8: The confession

As Natalie’s family holds her funeral, the police prepare the case against Denyer. He pleads guilty and the judge gives him a life sentence. He appeals and is granted a 30-year non-parole period. Widespread community outrage follows.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo ...  عرض المزيد

So who is Paul Denyer? He was a boy with some strange and concerning habits which people noticed. As a 21-year-old in prison, he had to navigate a whole new world. We meet the people who met him in prison. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

Ottis Toole is arrested for arson and confesses to a string of murders committed with his lover Henry Lee Lucas. Detectives come from all over to talk to him. Toole confesses to taking a little boy from a mall in Florida, but later denies it. Though Toole takes police to various ...  عرض المزيد

When 17-year-old William Heirens was caught breaking into an apartment, police believed they had finally captured the infamous "Lipstick Killer." Heirens confessed to the brutal murders of two women and a young girl, but his controversial confession and questionable police tactic ...  عرض المزيد

Twenty years ago this year, Michael Long set fire to the Palace Backpackers hostel in the regional Queensland town of Childers. Fifteen people were killed, nine men and six women. Long inititally admitted to the crimes, but later retracted his confession. In this episode of Crime ...  عرض المزيد

On a secretly recorded tape, a confident-sounding man boasts of his influence with corrupt police. He sounds like a crime boss, or some kind of underworld Mr Big. He says he can help make problems with the law go away. But first, he wants the truth about a murder.

But wh ...